THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT

Photographs: Klansmen burning a cross, the fingerprinting of Rosa Parks, George Wallace blocking the door of University of Alabama, a sit-in at a Woolworth’s lunch counter, a sign denoting a segregated waiting room, a Freedom Rider bus in flames, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, and the March on Washington. Documents: a poster promoting an NAACP membership drive, the Brown v. Board decision, a newspaper article on the Montgomery bus boycott, a poll tax political cartoon, LBJ’s diary entry noting the signing of the Voting Rights Act, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, King’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech, and a letter to JFK about church bombings.